Hello Everyone - Newbie Alert!

[windymiller]

Hi Everyone Newbie here!  The name's Andy, and I've just this minute joined up. Long term smoker (40 odd years), and I'm just trying this Electronic Cigarette lark. Currently have an e-cig Wizard, and also an e-Lites thing. The jury's still out on which one I prefer. What do you guys use?  What do we think of the recent press coverage about the health hazards? Media hype? Government scaremongering? Reality?

[Steve (VapeStorm)]

Welcome windymiller thats alot of questions for a first post.
at the moment I have vv/vw mods bit starting to get into mechs and rebuildable.
re. Media and government scaremongering its aload of crap with misinterpreted research and a reason to put taxon it to line their pockets

[Karma]

Nice to meet you windymiller

If you want to know more about the recent coverage of e-cigs etc, this Board should give you plenty of reading

allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/board/25/promoting-campaigning-articles-vaping-media

and this thread will give you an idea of the diverse gear we are all using

allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/thread/15174/hand-right

[Raffles]

  windymiller... you won't find much support for cig-a-likes. I respectfully suggest you spend a little while browsing this...

allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/thread/28309/pics-vids-get-started-abbreviations?page=1&scrollTo=513677

and then ask your questions. Good luck, you'll soon kick the 'stinkies'

[loobiebloo]

Hi windymiller, I advise a wander through the forum posts to answer your questions - the variety of gear, information and knowledge is quite astonishing.

[djs]

Feb 15, 2014 18:44:09 GMT windymiller said:

Currently have an e-cig Wizard, and also an e-Lites thing. The jury's still out on which one I prefer.

Welcome to AAEC.

E-Lites? criminally over-priced, not enough ooomph, nowhere near enough nicotine.

What have you got from ecigwizard that is not infinity times better?

[teethcv]

windymiller you lot are probly talking a differnt language to him talking about mods and all that lol
first thing we should ask if do you like the e lites and stuff like that but if you dont think they have enough punch you should try something abit bigger like a vison spinner and inlkin i16 atty and then try the flvors you think you would like and go from there

[Super-Shiny]

Hello and windymiller

[tracerace1]

hi windymiller like what he said up there teethcv just find the right flavour and go for iclear 16 and spinner

I guarantee you wont be disappointed

Slow and steady is the way

[teethcv]

dont go for mods or anything along them lines for start of its like being a baby you need to learn to crawl befor you can walk

[windymiller]

Thanks for the warm welcome peeps!

I'm not surprised that I got flamed for the e-Lite, as I had a feeling that it's not 'professional' or 'hardcore' enough. In answer to djs's (edited!) post, the only thing that I get from the e-Lite is consistency. The Wizard started to get a dreadful burnt taste so I changed the top burner thing (please excuse the incorrect terminology!) thinking it was due to be swapped out. The new one was just as bad.

Worrying that I'd go back to stinkies, I popped to WHSmith next to where I work to see what they had to offer, hence the e-Lite. Indeed there was far less oomph, but there was also far less burnt taste. Figuring that this was miles better than going out and getting 'proper' fags I stuck with it for a few days. Now at this stage, I have to admit that at the time I was starting to get a nasty cold and bad throat, so I'm happy to concede that this may have been a major factor in the nasty taste.

I certainly get more oomph from the Wizard, but I still get a strange taste. Although I still have a cold...

I'll check out the links that you all suggested and see what it's all about. 

[Deleted]

Hello & welcome to the forum & vaping, windymiller. It doesn't matter what you start out on, it's the fact that you have made the move to vaping. Most folk, if they get on OK with cig-a-likes, then do go on the look out for something more. With a move up, it gets more satisfying, with better flavour, vapour & the batts are longer lasting. So have a read, ask away & enjoy your vaping, whatever you choose to use.

[seniorphil]

Hello and welcome.

[Perpetua]

Welcome to you windymiller.


I'm assuming you don't look like this.

[Sal]

Hi windymiller I had exactly the same thoughts as Perpetua!